Strč prst skrz krk
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Strč prst skrz krk (listen ) is a Czech and Slovak tongue-twister meaning "stick your finger through your neck".
The sentence is well known for having a total absence of vowels. It is often used as an example of such phrase when learning Czech as a foreign language. Sometimes in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the phrase is used to judge whether or not a particular person is drunk.
The phrase is also the subtitle of the Swiss newspaper La Distinction. [1]
There's even longer phrase with no vowels in Czech language: "Prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn" ("A mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains").
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- (French) "Le virelangue - jazykolam : strč prst skrz krk" - Radio Prague article about the phrase
- (English) "Strč prst skrz krk t-shirt" - T-shirts from a Czech Type foundry
